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> I was one of these young software engineers that saw Hackers back in 1995 and was totally blown away by the potential shown of network technology. > … Hacker
by teakettle42 5y ago
> I was one of these young software engineers that saw Hackers back in 1995 and was totally blown away by the potential shown of network technology.
> … Hackers (1995), which after more than 20 years, holds still up amazingly well.
I’m not sure you’re demonstrating any appreciable sense of objectivity here.
Hackers was an absolute joke of a movie; an exaggerated snapshot of ridiculous, misinformed 1990s pop culture thinking on technology.
Ready Player One is pop culture fan service, played out amidst a dystopian corporate future. It’s not even really trying to discuss technology at all.
- pram 5y agoHackers was a joke but it has an enduring cultural cachet with IT nerds at least. I hear "hack the planet" and references to "the gibson" all the time still. I don't think I've ever heard a single IRL reference to anything in RPO
- Apocryphon 5y agoThere were plenty of references, but they were to the same '80s pop culture that the book worships. Really, all of the VR tech was just a plot device to create a magic world where that Gen X nostalgia never ends. Ready Player One tells us about technology about as much as Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 does.
- sushisource 5y agoHuh? People refer to corny one liners from Arnie movies too, that doesn't mean they had a philosophical impact on the way those people think about guns, or whatever. Hackers is a hilarious and fun over the top movie but I don't think it changed the way anyone thinks about technology.
- pram 5y agoI didn't say it did.
- jsemrau 5y agoHacker surely was exaggerated, ridiculous, and misinformed but it made tech "cool". I believe that Metaverse tech, which is currently at the same stage is isolationistic and enjoyed by a fringe of users. Same as the Internet was seen in the early '90s.